Eric Cantor on defunding: I support Ted Cruz

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Thursday that House Republicans have given their Senate GOP colleagues “what they want” by voting on a continuing resolution that would defund Obamacare.

“Sen. [Ted] Cruz, Sen. [Mike] Lee, Sen. [Marco] Rubio have said that they’re going to do everything and anything that they can to stop Obamacare. I support them in their efforts to do so. And we’ve actually given them what they want because this bill is coming over to them,” the Virginian Republican said on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”

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Cantor’s comments follow Speaker John Boehner’s announcement that the House will vote on a continuing resolution that will include a provision to defund Obamacare, a strategy that has erupted in disagreement within the Republican Party.

While many have said this could be a risky move, Cantor emphasized the vulnerability that Democrats seeking reelection in 2014 will be facing too over the vote.

“And remember, this puts the Democrats like Kay Hagan in North Carolina and Mark Pryor in Arkansas and Mark Begich in Alaska and Sen. [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana in a tough position. Obamacare has huge impacts in those states. These are Democratic senators that are up for reelection. Let’s see how they respond because they also have to be held to account for Obamacare,” he said.